Alert archive / North Dakota / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Grand Forks, ND

June 22, 1992Richland County, North Dakota

NWS Grand Forks, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1992, 7:44 PM CDT for Richland County, North Dakota. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 1992, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1992, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Forks, ND
Area: Whole counties

County Richland County, ND

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 8:25 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Richland, ND

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KHON), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KFAR 230044
SVRFAR
NDC017-077-230145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
744 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      SOUTHERN CASS...

   IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF NORTH DAKOTA
      RICHLAND...

AT 740 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
WEST OF FARGO NORTH DAKOTA...NEAR CASSELLTON NORTH DAKOTA.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE KINDRED...WYNDMERE AND MANTANDOR.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
IF YOU SPOT A FUNNEL OR A TORNADO YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A
REINFORCED BUILDING OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM OUTSIDE WALLS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY TO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.  IF YOU SPOT A FUNNEL OR A
TORNHADO YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING.

EWENS

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 6:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FARGO ND
625 PM CDT MON JUN 22 1992

TIME(CDT) EVENT
435 PM    GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN THE CITY OF CAVILIER NORTH DAKOTA...
          PEMBINA COUNTY.

535 PM    TORNADO REPORTED BY PUBLIC AND PEMBINA COUNTY SHERIFF JUST
          EAST OF WALHALLA NORTH DAKOTA.

500 PM    LATE REPORT OF 2 INCH HAIL 5 WEST OF SAINT THOMAS NORTH DAKOTA
          PEMBINA COUNTY.

430 PM    LATE REPORT OF EGG SIZE HAIL PRODUCING HOUSE DAMAGE BETWEEN
          WALHALLA AND CAVALIER NORTH DAKOTA...PEMBINA COUNTY.

610 PM    FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY WALSH COUNTY SHERIFF NEAR MINTO
          NORTH DAKOTA.
EWENS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Forks, ND issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cass	30 min
Jun 22, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Cass	46 min
Jun 22, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FGF	Richland	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.